From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: regex-opt does not accept 'symbol as second arg? Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:41:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223725366 9447 80.91.229.12 (11 Oct 2008 11:42:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:42:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Xah Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 11 13:43:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kocsn-0005E5-JW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:43:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35751 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kocrj-0000L0-K0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:42:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KocqH-0007wA-4M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:41:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KocqF-0007uT-M1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:41:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45301 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KocqF-0007uF-Aq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:41:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.159]:25785) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KocqF-0002wr-5X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:41:03 -0400 Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so677459fgb.30 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:41:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=uIulSmopKe4GlD8XQj8G6WOvHfZfwj0fpEQLFJwqbTM=; b=M9fn/Nln5QjoxUhv/4V4vAJfwKS93NiOS1zUcKvf8HEUDDtxa0Nf73Nl+VcBolOjjw i2F4HsrPnFYwbXNzhGMOqDOE6sqVNxbSdsgibX6M+34PcOaGEv7zuCBHM9ujQdndIrpZ UjwqBMdGwr8FXSYgd5CygDK9/8e0Gg4N6LBMQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=pHmDK2j61cfyy5bGjA84S16RjjjedIi2XMa3LBw+tCPkugHyj65VCinaZu8qngEzJe jsP6sBfMEvgmASyvnyfaOvS6ZYiB987wQ18ZIsuv6BNm6Lj5pVsA9CX3dbXgf3AaXxkC jxyT7adyYN6PGeqsDVuA771qiRlO7T0H9QjEE= Original-Received: by 10.86.74.4 with SMTP id w4mr2761812fga.25.1223725261391; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:41:01 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.86.65.3 with HTTP; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:41:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:58692 Archived-At: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Xah wrote: > the regexp-opt accept a second argument of "'word", but it doesn't > accept "'symbol"? > > Shouldn't it? Would not the semantics be exactly the same? But one thing I think would be useful is to be able to use numbers for the PAREN argument to get an explicitly numbered regexp group back.